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Engineering Management and Environmental Studies
This document provides guidance and tips for using various library resources such as databases, e-journals, books, and e-books to conduct research. It highlights specific databases like ProQuest and Web of Science that can be used to find articles, and notes that references and cited articles found within initial search results can lead to additional relevant sources. The document also explains how interlibrary loan can be used to obtain books and reports not held in the local library collection.
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- 5. If you needarticles and are not sure of the subject area, go to a multidisciplinary database. Proquest Research Library is one of the best. Click on P
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- 14. Here is thearticle Just in case it was not found in our collection, remember you can ask for it here and the library will get it for you and send the article to your email.
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- 17. Don’t forget the referencesat the end of the article. These are the print sources the author used for research.
- 18. What we justdid: *Used a database, Proquest, to find an article using a keyword search *Found citing articles *Looked at the author’s References One good article can bring several others to the research findings. Let’s look at another really good database: Web of Science
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- 26. What about GoogleScholar?
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- 39. The report isavailable at Anschutz Library. You can request that it be sent to Edwards Campus under your name. (You need a KU- ID card to check it out.)
- 42. The drop down menuchoice you want for this search is “Retrieve from Shelf”
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- 46. This method sometimes works verywell and other times it takes several screens of hits to find what you want.
- 50. Tip: Limit yoursearch by date if you want more e- Books in the results list.
- 51. Does the libraryhave a location just for e-Journals?
- 53. This is thetitle of a journal where we found an article in our search of the Proquest database.
- 56. This PDF copyof the document offers links to the References list at the end of the article itself.
- 59. Look at thedifferent formats offered for these articles. Let’s take a look at the “Full Text HTML” hoping for some more articles via the HTML search.
- 60. HTML version ofthe article allows for hyperlinks that bring the cited articles up for your reading choice.
- 64. Do contact these folksif you have any problems getting the book that you want. They are very efficient in getting what you want to you.
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